Asylum: Employment
Commons · Question 70081 · Tabled 22 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 5 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lizzi Collinge
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies on the rights of asylum seekers to work of the approach taken in Belgium.
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 5 Sep 2025
Those who claim asylum in the UK can apply for permission to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own. Allowing asylum seekers the right to work sooner could enable migrants to bypass establis...